Rider of the Week, Shaun B! Why do you ride? I ride for the exercise, I’ve always wanted to ride with a cycling club since I was young. What do you dislike about cycling? I dislike the man with the hammer. What do you like about cycling? What I like about cycling is meeting different […]

Rider of the week, Tim Farmer. Why do you ride? I ride for fitness, getting out I to the country oh and beer. What do you dislike about cycling? not knowing enough about bikes to be able to build my own, not looking good in lycra lol. Oh and when there isn’t beer. What do […]

The club have chosen to hold their annual christmas get together in the local pub this year. This sits well with the clubs tradition of being heavy drinking lunatics. Cost per person to attend this event is £5.00 per head. There is no entertainment booked, though i am sure that someone from the group will […]

Rider of the Week, Julie Parry! Why do you ride? found the love of cycling, after my husband brought me a second hand Victoria Pendalton women’s road bike 3 1/2 years ago. He had already been cycling for about a year with my son Simon, I really didn’t know what all the fuss was about. […]

Rider of the week, Michael Bryant (founder member) Why do you ride? I cycle to keep fit mix with likeable people and have a laugh. I was one of the founder members of the club I bought a bike from ebay for £30 to see if I liked it. I couldn’t of envisaged the club […]

As the cycling group has grown, the speed of some of the members has increased. To this end the group have started taking out a midweek group which runs at about 17mph. It’s a course of approximately 20 miles on well lit roads. Anyone wishing to take part would need to have good quality lights […]

Rider of the Week, John Bennett! Why do you ride. For fitness, to see countryside, go new places, good company. I got back into cycling six years ago but that’s not the full story. I started work at 16 and saved for a new bike I brought a “10 speed Racer” all steel I did […]

The good folk at Shire Oak Cycling Club decided to take part in a “poppy day ride out” on 11th November. Voluntary donations were welcomed by the club, and were to be passed on to a very local charity. 19 riders set out on Sunday morning in some quite wretched weather conditions. During the ride […]

If your bike is worth twice your gross monthly salary, you have more cycling shorts than underpants and you stockpile chamois cream you’re probably a MAMIL (Middle-Aged Man In Lycra). The word ‘MAMIL’ used to be a bit of a joke, a disparaging allusion to ‘midlife crisis’ blokes getting into cycling in their later years. […]